LL-L "Holidays" 2002.06.05 (08) [E]

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From: Holger Weigelt <platt at HOLGER-WEIGELT.DE>
Subject: LL-L "Holidays" 2002.06.05 (03) [E]

>From: "David Elsworth" <david_elsworth at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Translation
>
>Hello Ron / lowlanders,
>
>As it is now approaching Father's Day in the UK...
>David Elsworth.
>
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>From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Holidays
>
>Hi, David!  Good to hear from you.
>
>June 16th is Father's Day in the United States, Canada, Argentina,
>Panama and Japan as well.
>
>In Germany, Father's Day has been usurping the Christian holiday
>Ascencion Day (which is an official holiday), this year on May 9.  To
>find out how it is celebrated, please see our own Clara
>Kramer-Freudenthal's Low Saxon description (with my translation):
>http://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/kramer/himmelfohrt.html

Hello David, hello Ron, hello to all the others, too !
As Ron told in Germany there is a mixing up Christian Ascension Day with
Father's Day but in parts of Eastern Friesland we have a further (but
more
and more vanishing)tradition associated with this day apart from both
the
other meanings. It is said to be due to an old legend about the wedding
of
a "hovedling's" [chief's] daughter but it really seems to be an older
custom deriving from pre-Christian time. Children collect moss and
flowers
of different size and colours to lay pictures with. These are
called "bru:dpad" or German "Brautpfad" (bride's path). Sometimes they
are
just laid in the sand, sometimes in a sand-filled fruit-case to get
exhibited beside the house-door or on the pavement in front of the
house.
In recent years it is made a competition and the winner is offered a
small
gift by a jury.

Kind regards
Holger

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